| ▲ | jmathai a day ago |
| I imagine there's a lot of mixed emotions at Nvidia. Jensen seemed to have a very likable persona about him and he truly was a great CEO of the company. I imagine many looked up to him and are left to make sense of the past week. They've also taken a pretty big pay cut this week and potentially into the future. |
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| ▲ | hn_submit a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| I guess many nVidia employees feel they'll be soon out of a job without him at the helm. Most don't care about his extramarital affairs. |
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| ▲ | thewhitetulip a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't think nvidia will go down. But their RSUs are taking a big hit Now I am waiting for Microsoft to enter the drama like they did with OpenAI | | |
| ▲ | hn_submit a day ago | parent | next [-] | | It has some inertia, but without Huang the company will start to slide into oblivion. The thing they should be most worried about is his tactics for driving up prices and the company's stock price. That could start to haunt (and hurt) them pretty quickly. | | |
| ▲ | unethical_ban a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm not sure about that. Granted, I know noting about his day to day impact on the operation of the company. But, assuming he has run a tight ship and he has hired a number of competent people below him, nVidia will stay relevant for a long time. AMD might rise and challenge their dominance on AI compute. However they're on a cash cow one way or the other for a number of years. | |
| ▲ | aucisson_masque a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Huang didn’t invent llm, he merely benefits from it because he was at the right place at the right time. He didn’t do anything incredible. | | |
| ▲ | solyin a day ago | parent [-] | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418749 3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATI, and Cirrus were also in the right place at the right time, but there's a reason we're here talking about Nvidia and not them. How much was Jensen vs things out of his control though, few people will ever know. | | |
| ▲ | rob74 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, and that reason is that Nvidia managed to achieve vendor lock-in with CUDA - which is not generally regarded as a good thing, but it was certainly good for Nvidia. | |
| ▲ | paulryanrogers 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Survivorship bias is another explanation. NVDA wasn't worth nearly so much before AI took off. Arguably ATI is still around, wedded to AMD. |
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| ▲ | charlieyu1 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It doesn’t mean going down. A new CEO would likely start a round of layoffs to bring in new personal favourites and no employee would like that | |
| ▲ | overfeed a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It'd be spicier if it's AMD giving Jensen leadership of its GPU efforts there, and automatically hiring anyone at Nvidia who wants to jump ship. Unfortunately Jensen's 3.8% of $NVDA and/or golden handcuffs won't let him do this; but what I'd give to live in that universe. | |
| ▲ | amanaplanacanal a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Now I am waiting for Microsoft to enter the drama like they did with OpenAI Just as soon as they get their systems back up! |
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| ▲ | throw1234567891 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | it's so funny how everyone has their own variation of the NVIDIA spelling, and almost breaks their fingers while typing the name. Why not nVIdiA. | | |
| ▲ | tasuki a day ago | parent [-] | | The `nVidia` spelling has been used quite often in the past, eg https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2009/09/28/microsoft-nvi... | | |
| ▲ | throw1234567891 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | Whatever. The company is called NVIDIA: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/. Two wrongs don't make a right. | | |
| ▲ | rsynnott 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's repeatedly changed its own capitalisation; it can't really expect everyone else to pay too much attention to this. | | |
| ▲ | throw1234567891 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's like this since 2010. Hard to miss. | | |
| ▲ | rsynnott 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | I mean, it's just branding. It's had at least three capitalisation schemes that I can remember. Weird capitalisation schemes are a particularly bad branding approach, as people tend to just ignore them. This is hardly unique to nvidia; any brand which has a weird capitalisation scheme will tend to have it ignored by most people. Especially where it's really awkward/incorrect-looking (in nvidia's case they're trying to get people to use full-caps for a non-acronym). | | |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The first stage is denial. |
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| ▲ | slg a day ago | parent [-] | | Mixed with a little Upton Sinclair's "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." |
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| ▲ | drivingmenuts a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Well, at least two people liked him. |
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